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US Census Data: MySQL
The US Census Bureau's MySQL-based "QuickFacts" is a user-friendly web site where you can click on a US Map to get some interesting Census statistics.
Tables for Dummies
As requested, here is the "For Dummies" table template code.
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Here is the code to copy and paste (or type) into your Web page or Blog.
<table width="100" cellpadding="10"
cellspacing="10"
border="3" bordercolor="black"
bgcolor="yellow">
<tr><td bgcolor="black">
<span style="color: yellow;">
<big>
SURGERY<br><br>
for <br><br>
Dummies<br>
</big>
</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Fill in your own title.
Sunday Quotes
"My resume looks like the routing manifest for some displaced person after WWII. I am merely a high-tech migrant worker, following the harvests like Sisyphus rolling his rock. Rocking his roll. Locking and loading and finally going postal from the high bell-tower of a mind at once unhallowed and unhinged. "
Intro to The Bombast Transcripts
"By the time I got home, everyone I know was either asleep or under surveillance..."
RageBoy
The entertaining writings are from RageBoy, a typical post from this wild blog, where they write at night while they should be sleeping.
Gary Turner
"Don't believe his lies"
Blogs we are reading...
We just took a quick spin through a few sites of the guests posting at Tag-board. The young guns have some delicious ideas. You'll find a lot of pink sites and a somewhat common theme, but each has a unique presentation.
Trends can start at the pre-teen and teen sites and there's a lot to learn from how that group interacts with Web sites. Important if you are developing sites that they might use (someday).
Typographic Control
Notice that we changed the spacing between lines in the above post. We opened ourTypographic Control for a quick cheat on spacing help.
New Guests
Sites we are browsing today...
GiggleChick
RageBoy
Laura
Zeldman
Gary Turner
BostonBluEyes
Ariel Pay it Forward
InnerBalance
dgsblog
in my head
j-mo
Duh
SandHillTech just revealed our secret to getting hits. Only a few others have heard the sound of one hand clapping. And Daniel didn't reveal Mandarin's secrets in his featured article Hey Dude, Give Me Another Hit. We know that SandHillTech has figured out two of our methods. They revealed only one.
Sites we are browsing today...
SandHillTech
Laura
Zeldman
RageBoy
Still trying to figure this one out.
Qoöl
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Royalty-Free photos
A new iStockphoto contest will launch this Friday.
iStockphoto is a collection of royalty-free photos and multimedia files created and contributed by its members.
No-Strings Attached photos
The Mandarin Gallery has images that you can just snatch. No link, no membership, nothing. Just take what you need.
More Web Tricks with CSS
Combining Tags:
Span, Bold, and UnderscoreExample:
Can you use this on your site?Heres the code you can Copy and Paste (or type) into your Web page or Blog
<span style="font-family:verdana,helvetica; font-size:12px; color:black; background:yellow;"> <b>Can you <u style="background:#FF6600;"> use this </u> on your site?</b> </span>Details you don't have to know:
- SPAN tag: First we tell the browser that we want a font size of 12px, a text color of black, and a background that is lime.
- HTML tag:
<b>Then we use the boldHTML <b>to say we want our text to be bold. - HTML tag:
<u>Finally, we use the underscore tag<U>in the same line of text and change the color.
Some colors we like are red, orange, yellow,green, blue, indigo, and violet.
If it doesn't work on the first try make sure your blogging tool didn't insert stray line break <br> tags.
You may not be able to see the line breaks. Use the delete key to make sure each tag is on one line.
Here are the Top 10 Gaining Queries
Week Ending Sept. 23, 2002 1. irish travelers (huh?) 2. emmy awards (why?) 3. miss america (duh?) 4. bundestagswahl 2002 (huh?) 5. ryanair (?) 6. survivor thailand (oh yea!) 7. abc (go figure) 8. big brother 3 (why?) 9. push nevada (uh? Oh, it's TV) 10. national geographic
You learn a lot by reading about what people are searching for in Google. Where we've been, where we are going. Television, music, lyrics, and the sport of the season.
Sites we are browsing today...Laura
Zeldman
Gary Turner
BostonBluEyes
Ariel Pay it Forward
InnerBalance
dgsblog
in my head
j-mo
Blogs we are reading
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Icons
What can you do with the 32 x 32 Icons? Use them on your desktop.- Right-click any
GIFimage. - Select "Save Picture As ..." and change the file type to
.BMP - Tell your desktop shortcut to use it as its icon. How? Right-click on any desktop ICON and then
click on Properties. - Click the
Change Icon...button and enter the name of the .BMP file you just saved (you may need to rename it from .BMP to .ICO)We use ICONS to group similar projects, using the same icon for all items we are currently working on. For example, we are working on three projects. Each project has Excel, Word, HTML and other code, images, and ftp info associated and we create desktop links. We replace the default Excel, Word, and other default icons to match for each project.
Project 1 - we use this icon for all related desktop icons.
Project 2 - we use this icon for all related desktop icons .
A good ORANGE isn't easy to render. We like this one.
Copy and paste (or type) this code for Halloween highlights.<div style="width:200px;text-align:left; padding:5px;background-color: #FF9700; border:1px solid black;font-size:12px;"> A good ORANGE isn't easy to render. We like this one. </div>
No Fuss Tricks
Click this Thumbnail:
If you want your visitors to see your larger images use a clickable thumbnail.
The tutorial Grouping Images will help you with clickable thumbnails.
Thus spake the master programmer: " After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless. "
Geoffrey James, The Tao of ProgrammingListen to Elvis while you read
Cultural Literacy
The search engines report that the top ten searches today are for Kazaa, Nelly, Eminem, NFL, Britney Spears, Dragon Ball, Avril Lavigne, Yu-gi-oh, PlayStation 2, and WWE. How did they get this image of Britney so perfectly small in size? That's my curiosity.
Some of us don't watch TV or listen to popular music. Someone had to tell me how to pronounce "Eminem". I do know what NFL means but will need to look up the rest (one at a time). I've heard of Britney Spears and think that she is blonde. A singer, right? Yes, we found a picture of Britney. And Kazaa is taking up where Napster left off?
Popular searches with good links
We've filtered out the advertising sites for your convenience.Good Link
http://www.lockergnome.com/options.html has excellent links. We need to go back later.
Survivor: Thailand
Survivor 5 - we're putting our money on the software development manager. He's already a survivor. Ted Rogers is a former NFL football player and a software development manager who enjoys web page designing. Let's go find his site...
Popular
Tips and Tricks
Float Image Left
Float Text Left
Glow Filter
Inline Style for Blog
Highlight Your Text
Bordered Box Solid
Bordered Box 2
Bordered Text
Bordered Table
Dashed Border with Image
Shadow Filter
Shadow Filter 2
Free Icons
Typographic Control
Flip Vertical
Slide show
Close Window option
Play Sounds in Blog
Reads
Grouping Images
More hits...
Free Criminal Records
Web Page too Fast?
Punching the Page
Link Popularity
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures"
Quote ripped from in my head.
Henry Ward Beecher. Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887
Pictures dipped by Mandarin
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
-- Iris MurdochWatch Your Image Size
1. Right click on your image
2. Click on Properties
3. Look at the sizeThe dimensions aren't that important. It's size that counts. We try to stay under 10,000 bytes (10K). If you see numbers like 60,000 bytes or even 100,481 bytes then your site isn't loading fast anywhere (except from your own PC).
Click this Thumbnail:
If you really want your visitors to see your larger images use a clickable thumbnail.
The tutorial Grouping Images will help you with clickable thumbnails.
Yu-Gi-Oh! If you are the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime type site that is intentionally image intensive then larger images (30,000 + bytes ) are tolerated by the audience.
Fade Applet or
JavaScript Slide Show
Fade Applet
This fading image you see here is done with the old Fade Applet (click the link to see the short and easy instructions).JavaScript slideshow
The JavaScript slideshow looks identical so you can compare and select either one for use on your site.
Tapping Your Brain
(or Tapping Your Pain)The Computer Professional World According to Michelle
(as requested)
Ron wrote to ask many questions, but they are the questions we get often enough that we can answer them here. The answers are not easy since each computer professional might answer a little differently." To me, it is like looking inside the window of some large company and seeing all of these people doing their jobs but not knowing what any of them are doing or how they got there. "
RonHere goes...
I read all of the computer magazines and see all of the job ads and computer related companies that run ads to teach you courses in IT, Computer Graphics, Computer languages and computer courses like Linux, Java, C++, Databases courses etc...
I have seen these so many times my mind is actually blurred by all of this as how they relate to getting a job. In other words, are these, ( C++, JAVA, Oracle, Cisco, Unix, MCSE Certified, A+ Cert Repair), all courses you would need to take to get that particular job... I mean, if I took a lot of courses and got some sort of certification on Oracle, would I find a job doing that? Or is that just part of a bunch of classes I would need to take to find a job...and what would the job be? Programmer? Oracle Programmer? That sounds stupid I know.
so you want my job, eh?
A: No. It's not stupid. The IT world is not easy to understand, and for the most part the younger kids get their degree, or work in a student assistant position while going to school, and then decide which part they want to focus on. For example, I work in Telecommunications, Network Software Support. Now, how one would prepare for an application developer position with a specialty in Networking is not an easy question to answer. You get the job first and then begin to specialize. Our student assistants start learning while going to school and if they are really good they often land a job.
Does certification alone land you a job?
A: It could. Not likely. Usually a few years of experience is required.
These guys you see working behind the counters of computer stores like Best Buy or Joe Blows Computer World, that repair or find glitches in your computer or install programs or hardware for you....did they get these jobs from taking classes on A+ Certified Repair. Did they have to take more classes? Does that kind of work pay well enough to make a living doing it?
A: Don't have a clue.
Is there such a job as a Java Programmer?
so you want my job, eh?
A: Yes.
Could you take all the classes you could find in Java and get some sort of Java Certification and then go out and find a job doing programming in Java?
A: Possibly. They will usually want a fuller background. You would need to know a couple of languages. Visual Basic would help.
What about Database Administrator? Can you do the same there? Is all of this incredibly hard to learn and would take years to learn enough to become good enough to get a job doing it?
A: Classroom database training is a good start. Again, classroom work alone is not enough. The real learning begins once you are in the job doing the real work.
I have no clue of the pay scales here for these various courses....I'm not sure which one would be worth investing the time to learn only to find out it isn't going to get me hired anywhere....like, I'd hate to take courses to get a Java Certificate and then find out no one uses Java programming anymore and there is no field for it.
A: I personally would not focus on JAVA alone. Others do.
so you want my job, eh?
I know very little on programming. I know very little on HTML. But, I can learn these things if I knew what direction to head for. What would you suggest as a heading to get a computer related job or career? I have been checking on online courses due to my job schedule and all the hours spent there. I just see so many courses offered and am not sure which ones I would need to take to actively search for a new occupation instead of driving a truck for the next 100 years. Art is nice but "you have to eat" as they say....
so you want my job, eh?
A: The online courses are expensive, but convenient. You will get more from live classroom instruction.
Not really for Dummies! It's just a quick start.PHP and
MySQL
DUMMIES
If I had to decide what to learn right now it would be anything Open Source: Linux, Apache, PHP, and MySQL. All can be downloaded free. The "PHP and MySQL for Dummies" is an excellent book (it's not really for dummies, just a quick start). Personally, I think this is where the action is.You know this stuff. You are in this field and would have better thoughts on it than most people. I don't want to press you for info but more like ask your opinion on what all of this is about really. To me, it is like looking inside the window of some large company and seeing all of these people doing their jobs but not knowing what any of them are doing or how they got there. I don't know what courses they took to do each individual job, or which job is better to try and get, or which job is way too hard to learn or would take forever to learn or is almost impossible to get into.
so you want my job, eh?
A: From inside that window I see people who are Cisco certified and have previous work experience. Some do not have degrees but have learned networking or their specialty on the job somewhere. Most of the programmer types have degrees and learn the languages offered at that university. After one or two languages the rest come easy. We tend to have an older expert workforce and there are not often two people who do the same job.
It is specialized to a level that in the last ten years I haven't had a boss that knows exactly what it is that I do. Even with a small staff of say 15 people in our little group, each person is highly specialized: OpenView, Ciscoworks, DNS, QIP, and more. My area is Internet Web application development and managing the data for a large network. I don't have a clue what my coworkers do.
I've thought about computer graphics/graphic artist and know I would need to take courses in Photoshop and Corel and possibly Paintshop Pro...but I'm sure there are others I would need. Once I took them, would I be able to just go fill out an application for graphic artist if they stated these programs as requirements and all I had was a bunch of certificates from online schools? Is that a pipedream?
so you want my job, eh?
A: The bad news. We don't have a graphic artist. I don't think many shops do. Most business applications have few graphics. Clip art is available and we use assistants for Photoshop. Our one logo was contracted out. A long time ago an instructor said "nobody is going to pay you to Michaelangelize your work". And, with the Internet and the Web that is not as true as it once was but for the most part business applications stick to a rigid color palette with little or no graphics (see Yahoo and Amazon).
If you have some spare time one of these days and feel like telling me "the world according to Michelle", I would gladly listen and be ever thankful. If what I'm asking is insane, just humor me! hahahaha! Thanks Michelle, and sorry again for all my killer emails... Wondering....and confused, Ron
so you want my job, eh?
$70,000+
As a government worker my salary is public information. After nearly 20 years in this field I make a little over $70,000 per year. That's for a Senior Programmer Analyst or a Software Specialist II with experience, training, or exposure to the following: Database design, managing long-term projects (more than one year, multi-million dollar projects), designing and developing applications, Networks, writing manuals, Java, JCL, REXX, SAS, Basic, FoxPro, dBase, Databus, RMS, NT, Cobol, Fortran, JavaScript, HTML, ColdFusion, PHP, MySQL, Oracle, Unix, FTP, and the usual office software like Visio, Excel, Word, and more. We work on various platforms including IBM mainframe, DEC, and PCs.
so you want my job, eh?
I never recommend this occupation to anyone. It requires maintaining a high-level of intensity, long hours, off-shift hours, sleepless nights, and eating from vending machines. You live the job, it becomes your life.
Dashed Border
I want that dashed border around my picture. How do you do that?Like this?
Dashed Border: Quick and Dirty...
Copy and paste (or type) this code in your Web page or Blog:<img src=banner2.gif style="border: 1px dashed Black;" width="150" height="150">
Replace the image name with the name of your imageyourpicture.gif.
Dashed Border: Using Inline Style...
You can add the
style="border: 1px dashed Black;"
to yourIMGtag like this.<img src=banner2.gif style="border: 1px dashed Black;" >
Dashed Border: Using CSS Style Sheet...
You can put the style in your external style sheet.dashed {border: 1px dashed Black;}and then refer to the image like this:<img src=banner2.gif class="dashed">
Tips and Tricks
2002
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SeptemberThe archive script for Blogger stopped working for us. We are removing it so that you will not see the JavaScript errors. We are saving a copy of the script removed. It runs fine locally but results in a script error when installed in the blogger template.
<SCRIPT type="text/javascript" src="archive.html"> <a href="archive.html">Archived Blogs</a> </SCRIPT>
We can put it back in when Blogger pro is more stable. Blogger is still experiencing some growing pains.
Shadows, again
The CSS shadow filter is a powerful way to add punch to a page without graphics. It's also a fun filter to play with.Shadows How did they do that?
Copy and paste (or type) this code in your Blog or Web page<table width="200" style="filter:SHADOW"> <t><td> <span style="font-family: Arial Black; font-size:32px; color: red;"> YOUR TEXT GOES HERE </span> </td></tr></table>Tip for Today
Make sure that you include the HEIGHT and WIDTH for every image on your page. If you forget (like we do) the page will not be displayed until the browser finishes the download.
Free Image Optimizer - Quick Fix
Oops. We posted this .gif image, a snapshot we took of the InnerBalance site, and later realized it was over 10K in size.
We try to keep images small for quick site loading. No time for Adobe right now so we did a quick fix using the image optimizer at Netmechanic. The .gif is now under 10K in size.
Quick Image Optimizer
Perhaps we need to change the slogan from
Mandarin Daily:
to
"for people who make mistakes"Mandarin Daily:
"for people who make a lot of mistakes"
Need pictures or images?
Mandarin Gallery
The Mandarin Gallery has
free pictures and images
for your blog or website.
No strings attached.
What to say in a guest book?
Jen saysi'm so diggin' this site.... thanks for the great info for a geek wannabe like me!
Now that's encouraging. All we can ever think to say is "nice site". Some have a talent for writing. Jen does.HTML Quotation
When you have a long quotation you may want to use the<blockquote>HTML tag in your blog or Web page. It indents and spaces for you.Here's a long quote
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Copy and paste (or type) this code in your blog or HTML page.
Nathaniel Borenstein<blockquote> The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein </blockquote>
Bordered Box (solid)
I like that box with the solid border. How do you do that?With inline style. The DIV tag.
YOUR TEXT GOES HERECopy and paste (or type) this code in your blog or HTML page.
<div style="width:200px;text-align:left; padding:5px;background-color:lawngreen; border:1px solid black;font-size:12px;"> YOUR TEXT GOES HERE </div>
Little Bitty Form
Textism.com has a simple little form that cleans HTML documents created in Word.
Hits, Hits, and More Hits
A few folks have written lately to ask questions about search engines and how to get hits.
A few months ago, Daniel Cronin wrote a two-part article here for Mandarin where he shares his tips and tricks.
The article Hits hits hits and more hits will teach you in one page to count the way counters do. In the next part, Gimme gimme gimme Daniel gives you the inside scoop on how much search engines count.
Dude, Give Me Another Hit!...
Note:Mandarin does not submit pages to search engines. We aren't real careful about our Meta tags either. In the beginning we submitted our site to Yahoo! From there we presume that all of the other engines picked us up.
Todays Top Tips
Free:
Cooltext is where you go to make your own quick logo or banner online. And if you already have a logo then take the link popularity check for a spin. It will tell you how popular your site is today.Do you think that professionals never use Bravenet? We do. We use free tutorials too. Some are better than the paid training or college courses, especially for HTML and JavaScript. Take a look at www.w3schools.com. Go there when you don't have time for a full training course.
.Song Lyrics in Searches
ColdPlay - Parachutes song lyrics. That's just one place to find them. When using a search engine like Google, just put in a few words lyrics and coldplay will give you many hits for sites that have ColdPlay song lyrics. To refine your search put in more key words. The lyrics to just about any song you can think of are out there to be found.
Where is a good online dictionary, like the huge one next to the desk is just too big. We'll find it. For maps, everyone looks online. We need an Atlas or a World map to keep up with our changing world. The cheap airfare to Hawaii from Sacramento is getting cheaper all the time. We use travelocity and it alerts us to where we could be rather than working here on a PC. Well, it seemed we would never resort to this but here is a recipe for Coca-cola salad....we'll finish this one later.
Need images?
Any photo or image in the Mandarin Gallery may be used without our permission.
No link required.
The Sunday Paper
So many have asked lately about the world of computer professionals.How is the downturn affecting you? Are you worried?
We work full time in a secure industry. For senior-level professionals there is always plenty of work. Curiously enough, people have been asking this same question for many years, or making statements like "computers are getting so sophisticated we will not need programmmers". Not true. Mostly we simplify what we do by telling you we are programmers or developers or designers.my boss, the genius
Today we are reading the local newspaper and find computer-related jobs listedFoxPro programmer and Help Desk
That's us. We do FoxPro. The salary is way off.Java programmer with client/server development and design experience
Java by itself is boring. They are looking for coders....vision and leadership for staff development and growth, strategic planning, and integration of ...developing and implementing processes and technologies and...
Not interested. They don't know what they want. Right now we are not taking any new work at Mandarin.Our full time day jobs are fun. During the day we work in ColdFusion, FoxPro, PHP, MySQL, REXX, a little SAS, and more.
my boss, the genius
It's mostly Internet applications but we also work with mainframe databases, and standalone applications. There is always data to be extracted and ported into Oracle and other databases.we stay busy
We help manage "the largest network West of the Mississippi" from a data perspective. Now, the boss doesn't know exactly what it is that we do and there isn't anyone who tells us what to do or how to do it. We figure that part out. They don't need to know what we do or what languages we code in or what design techniques are used. They only need the end result.
don't do it
We never recommend this profession to anyone. It can be high stress, long hours of maintaining a high-level of intensity, and is nothing like the courses you took in college. In the classroom the instructor has done most of the type of work you will do in the real world. In the real world it is your job to find the problems or opportunities.
we stay busy
Defining the problem to be solved is the most time-consuming aspect of the work. You will lose sleep, eat dinner out of vending machines, drink too much Pepsi, and will eventually wear thick glasses.You will not work with graphics. The assistants do that.
You will not work with photography. The assistants do that.
The fun part of Web related work is done by assistants or contracted out to graphics professionals.
Welcome guests from the Sugar-n-spicy.com site. We would love to hear from you. Perhaps you have some ideas for new articles or tutorials?
KAZAA, the the hot file-swapping program of the moment, follows in the steps of Napster and Morpheus. Is it working well for *you*?MTV has an exceptional site design, with news on American Idol, Ja Rule, Justin Timberlake, Eminem, Christina Aquilera, and more. But, best of all it works on every browser.
Creative Uses for Shadow Filter
We noticed that BostonBluEyes uses the shadow filter for the upper left logo on his site. It looks nice and is nearly free as far as download time. A very effective use of text instead of graphics.BostonBluEyes Shadowing Text Question
Subj: Shadowing Text Question Date: 9/5/02 1:15:50 AM From: REMOVED To: webmaster@mandarindesign.com Sent from the Internet (Details) Is there a way to set an external CSS to shadow all text on the page that references it? If so, could your provide the code... I am at a complete loss. Thank you!!!! :-) ZyberBoi
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Where you find new tips, tricks, rants, and raves every day.
Our first response was why would anyone want to do that? Shadow filter an entire page.And, what a WOW we got when we tried it. The effect is so incredibly awesome, even using the color lime. Thanks for a great idea ZyberBoi! Please let us know when you do it on your site so that we can all see it in action.
This worked for us
We changed our BODY and TABLE tags like thisbody{ background: white; color: black; filter:shadow(color=lime); margin-left: .0in; margin-right: .0in; margin-top: .0in; margin-bottom: .0in; background : White;} table{filter:shadow(color=lime); }The only code added to our existing style in the external CSS style sheet is
filter:shadow(color=lime);
We added it to both ourBODYtag and to ourTABLEtag.We had to add it to our
TABLEtag since most of our content is contained within aTABLEtag. To make your entire page display using the shadow filter it would probably have to be included in each tag. You may even have to define thePparagraph tag with a shadow filter.
Steal these Graphics
Free icons
Those little 32 X 32 standard sized icons you see around are free at Zeldman.comHere are a few that we borrowed.
Dynamic HTML
This paragraph is a dynamic HTML demonstration. Click anywhere in this paragraph to see the font size to increase to 18.
Here is the code if you want to copy and paste (or type) it into your blog.<p onclick="this.style.fontSize='18';"> Click me? </p>
Click me?
Mandarin Daily "For people who make mistakes"
Who links to you?
MarketLeap Site Popularity Checker is a tool for checking your site popularity in popular search engines. But, when you run it you may see some sites that link to your site that you didn't know about.fun fun fun
PrincetonReview.com
The Princeton Review site (www.review.com) is upgrading and joining forces with Embark.com this week. Today actually. Guess what the new name is? Drum roll...
Web Style Guide
Need a style guide? Or, just want to read about authoring for the Web. Try this site Style Guide site.Weather Forecast
For Weather Forecasts we use Weather.com. Is that site name easy to remember or what? Weather.com offers forecasts for over 1600 cities worldwide as well as numerous radar and satellite maps.
Bordered Box
I like that box border with the dots. How do you do that?With
inline style. TheDIVtag.
YOUR TEXT GOES HERECopy and paste (or type) this code in your blog or HTML page.
<div style="width:200px;text-align:left; padding:5px;background-color:#66FF66; border:1px dotted black;font-size:12px;"> YOUR TEXT GOES HERE </div>
We like usingstylebecause it's free. No graphics to load. No bandwidth to waste. We used the color #66FF66 from the web safe color chart for this box.Accessibility
"When I learn something, I'll let you know. "
DGSblog offers visitors the default size font or the option to make the font bigger. The difference between the dgsblog presentation and the left-bar font size increaser we see (or don't see) at our daily newspaper Web site is that a low-vision reader can actually read the option on dgsblog. That's where other implementations lose it. Low-vision users can't find the magnifying glass.
- dgsblogFresh Guest Articles
Looking for fresh articles and tutorials? Stay tuned. Daniel Cronin of ShutMeUp.com has some great ideas and will be contributing an article or tutorial in a new flavor soon.Get on it, man!
Hey there is never any presure here.Comment Feature in Blogs
A quick thanks to Casey who wrote to let us know that the comment feature from haloscan is easy to understand and their servers are fast.Questions
Professor Fusion wrote regarding his site. He is trying to make it look good in IE 4.01, IE 5.5, and NS 2.0. He wonders what is going wrong. Yes, it can be done but you really have to dummy down all of the features. No bells and whistles. A plain and simple site is the easiest way to go.
